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Re: How to transform children's height into standardized height [message #3786 is a reply to message #3781]

Wed, 11 February 2015 03:42

sanoussi
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Registered: May 2014
Location: Lomé (Togo)

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Thank you very much,
I comeback to you again.
After calculating my own z-scores from the WHO standards using zscore06 package, i want to determine what children's height would be if they are all girls at 24 months of age. This is an example of what i want to do:

From the DHS data, if we observe a 46-month-old male who is 95.3 cm in height. Using the 2000 CDC growth charts for a 46-month male, we calculate his Z-score to be 1.40. We then use this relative position to determine what his height would be if he were a 24-month-old female, which is 80.1 cm. This 46-month old male with 95.3 cm thus maintains his relative position, but has a standardized height that can be compared to standardized heights for other children at different ages and sex. The standardized height of 46-month old male with 95.3 cm is 80.1 cm.

this is done by the formula attached
Thank you for your help

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		How to transform children's height into standardized height By: sanoussi on Tue, 10 February 2015 04:37
		Re: How to transform children's height into standardized height By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 10 February 2015 14:42
		Re: How to transform children's height into standardized height By: sanoussi on Wed, 11 February 2015 03:42
		Re: How to transform children's height into standardized height By: Reduced-For(u)m on Wed, 11 February 2015 13:58
		Re: How to transform children's height into standardized height By: sanoussi on Thu, 12 February 2015 03:17

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